McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) research station on the south side of Ross Island. During our stay here the population has varied between 400-600 people filling a wide range of roles including station operations, flight and logistics operations, science teams, food services, computer support, engineering, cargo, field equipment, waste management, environmental management, and much more. People come from a variety of backgrounds, and it's very interesting to hear people's stories of why they work in Antarctica, how they started working here, and where they were before they started working on the ice.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) representatives on station organize science talks for researchers and science teams to share their projects and science results with everyone in McMurdo Station. On Nov. 14, our TIME Team presented the Sunday Public Science Lecture in the McMurdo Galley. We described the warming climate and ice mass loss observed at Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. We explained that a shear margin is the boundary of a glacier where the more quickly moving glacier ice meets less quickly moving or not moving ice off the edge of the glacier. We also detailed our seismic, radar, and GPS experiments, the types of geophysical equipment we deployed at the Eastern Shear Margin of Thwaites, and our plans for the next several field seasons.
Thank you once again to everyone in McMurdo who is supporting our TIME research! Thanks also to Dr. Jennifer Wade of NSF who organized the talk, and thanks to everyone who attended! We appreciated the opportunity to share some of our science activities!
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